Illumination Works is looking for a Data Engineer to work hands-on with challenging data engineering, data management, and analytics projects, collaborating with data scientists, analysts, business users, and IT teams to design, implement, and deploy data services and analytics.
Requirements
- Familiarity with the manipulation of unstructured data in a data analytics environment
- Proficient in the use of open-source tools, cloud computing, machine learning, and data visualization
- Experience with specialized languages relevant to the technologies employed such as Apache, Hadoop, Python
- Cloud experience: Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Database design and principles
- Data modeling, schema development, and data-centric documentation
- Experience improving code performance and query optimization
Responsibilities
- Install continuous pipelines of large pools of filtered information so that data analysts/scientists can pull relevant data sets for their analyses
- Develop and maintain ETL pipelines
- Database design and principles
- Data modeling, schema development, and data-centric documentation
- Experience integrating data from a variety of data source types
- Recommend and advise on optimal data models for data ingestion, integration, and visualization
- Use Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) concepts to engineer a standardized data environment
Other
- Must have or be willing to obtain Secret Clearance (this requires US Citizenship)
- Provide expertise on all data concepts for the broader advanced analytics group
- Inspire the adoption of advanced analytics, data engineering and data science across the organization
- Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in a corporate setting in the data engineering field, at least three (3) of which must have been in a data analytics environment preferably in DoD or the intelligence community
- Acceptable candidates must successfully pass a drug test and background screen
